Flood relief concert this weekend at Front Porch Pick’n

Tuesday

Sep 5, 2017 at 5:17 PM

With school back in session, students are settling into their regular routines. And that includes extra curricular activities like music lessons, for which many children and teenagers frequent Front Porch Pick’n, LLC.

The music studio is co-owned by Dylan Terry and his sister Sarah Beth Terry. Dylan manages the business, as Sarah Beth has moved back home to Kentucky.

Sarah Beth was initially in the DeRidder area because her husband was a master sergeant on Fort Polk. When she started up the business, it was called Queen Bee & Co.

Eventually, Sarah Beth was signed in Nashville, and Dylan came down from Kentucky to take over. After she moved back home, Dylan chose to stick around. “We’ve got a pretty good thing going here,” he said. “We teach all day, and we have recording sessions during the nights and weekends.”

Students as young as three and as old as 75 come from all around for their music lessons at Front Porch Pick’n.

Dylan and Nelli Dixon, assistant manager, teach skills in guitar, piano, drum lessons, bass guitar and singing, to name a few. They also offer professional recording and production.

Many students come in after the school day is over, but home school students come in for their lessons during the day, where they get customized music education. “We try to fit as much in to an hour, or a half hour lesson, and taylor to what the student wants to play,” said Dylan. “We try to keep it interesting.”

Not only does Dylan, a 7-year veteran, run Front Porch Pick’n, but he is also in seven different bands, including the Army band, he said.

The event will benefit local needs and then move outward from there if they have enough to further. “Everybody is focused on Houston right now, but there are other places that are waist high in water,” he said.

Front Porch Pick’n LLC is located at 420 North Pine Street in DeRidder. For more information contact them at 337-202-4007, or log on to www.frontporchpickn.com.